dpa photographer Alkharboutli killed in Syria
A photographer working for dpa, Anas Alkharboutli, has been killed during the latest fighting in Syria.
The 32-year-old photojournalist was killed in an airstrike while working near the Syrian city of Hama, other reporters who witnessed the incident confirmed.
Mr Alkharboutli had been reporting on the advance of the rebel alliance Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.
Mr Alkharboutli studied engineering at the University of Damascus.
He began working as a photojournalist in 2015 and joined dpa in 2017; he quickly made a name for himself with his pictures and videos from the Syrian civil war.
His photography has won multiple international awards, in 2020; Alkharboutli received the Young Reporter Trophy of France’s prestigious Bayeux Award for war reporting.
In 2021, he won the sports category at the Sony World Photography Awards with a photo series of children doing karate.
dpa editor-in-chief Sven Gösmann said, “All of us at dpa are in shock and deeply saddened by the death of Anas Alkharboutli. We will honour his journalistic legacy. With his pictures, he did not only document the horrors of war, but always worked for the truth.”
(dpa/NAN)
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